I have a lot of gay friends, they are not pedophiles and I will defend them to the end. I will not defend or not post an article simply because of the nature of it's content being contentious or possibly at cross purposes with my own feelings. Trust me, I thought long and hard before this went up.
I don't have any close friends that are homosexual, but I do work around quite a bit, and have never had any problems with harassment. Thankfully, the great majority are low key, and don't wave it in the faces of everyone in the office.
However, the firm I work for has an extensive "diversity" program. I pray that I will never be asked or required to attend one of those noxious and insulting seminars. As everyone who has suffered through one of those knows, they are mini-re-education camps, informing everyone in the office that they are to think in a certain way if they are going to be accepted as the type of employee the company wants. I have heard and read of incidents in which traditional views are ostracized, and sometimes the people who hold those views are characterized as "hateful."
I don't hate anybody for who they are. If I hate someone, it's for what they do. I don't hate homosexuals any more than I hate other sexually dysfunctioned and/or promiscuous people until they do something hateworthy -- such as the above. And I have a long list of heteros I have known that have done hateworthy things before I get to any homosexuals.
BTW: Part of Michael Savage's on-air rage is due to "sensitivity training" that he had to go through at his old station after the station's most liberal talk host was accused of racism for not hitting the "mute" button quickly enough on a caller that called then-newly elected S.F. mayor Willie Brown a "jungle bunny." The management of the station bent over backwards to apologize as if someone had deliberately done something wrong, and "sensitivity training" was part of the price to get Willie off their backs.